Track Listing

1. How to Fight Loneliness - Wilco
2. It's All over Now, Baby Blue - Them
3. Weight - The Band
4. Got a Feelin' - The Mamas & the Papas
5. Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers
6. Comin' Back to Me - Jefferson Airplane
7. Angel of the Morning - Merrilee Rush, Turnabouts
8. Right Time - Aretha Franklin
9. End of the World - Skeeter Davis
10. Downtown - Petula Clark
11. You Need a Rest
12. Claymore
13. Ward
14. Emergency Room
15. Lisa
16. Seclusion
17. Meds
18. Tunnels
19. File Readings
20. Toby/My Friends
21. Ambivalence
22. Escape
23. Daddy's Money
24. New Morning
25. Driving in the Rain
26. Last Night
27. So Many Buttons
28. Breakdown
29. Going Home

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #118500 in Music
• Released on: 2000-01-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English

Album Description
Soundtrack to new film based on the best selling memoir by susana Kaysen and starring Winona Ryder. 9 tracks chosen by the director to reflect the turbulent late 60's setting. Featuring such artists as Petula Clark, Them, Jefferson Airplane, Aretha Franklin and The Band - as well as a track from Wilco's 1999 album 'Summer Teeth', called 'How to Fight Lonliness'. 29 tracks in all. 1999 release. Standard jewel case.

Amazon.com
Girl, Interrupted, the movie adaptation of Susanna Kaysen's memoir of being forced into a psychiatric institute, faces the challenge that all films set in the '60s must overcome: How do you create a memorable soundtrack that isn't filled with the same "greatest hits" that we hear on the radio (or any number of mediocre compilations)? Thankfully, Girl does have some eclectic moments: The Mama's & the Papa's "Got a Feelin'" isn't a tune we hear everyday, the reflective Jefferson Airplane song "Comin' Back to Me" fits the movie nicely, and Wilco's "How to Fight Loneliness"--though written 30 years after the film's events take place--is a welcome modern touch. Of course, we get overplayed classic rock, too--Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts' "Angel of the Morning," the Band's "The Weight," and Them's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." But for soundtrack buffs, the real treasures are at the end. Mychael Danna--best known for his ongoing collaboration with director Atom Egoyan--delivers 18 of his most-accessible-to-date (though still rather dark and ambient) score tracks. --Jason Verlinde

Customer Reviews

Really Great CD!
The "Girl, Interrupted" soundtrack is a really great new CD! Whether you're a fan of the (awesome)movie or haven't seen it yet, this is a really great audio cd. The tracks from the score of the movie are really good, as well as the other songs on it. Really good 60's-70's era songs, and most of them aren't the 60's-70's song on every other soundtrack of movie based on that time period. "Downtown" is especially great, as is "The Weight" (in my opinion). Also, Wilco makes a really great modern addition to this sountrack with the song "How to fight loneliness." All in all it's a really terrific CD (can I stress that enough?)! Buy it now!

It's missing Something..
I ran out the day that this came into stores and even paid full price for it.. Over all the CD is pretty good..The Merrilee Rush track "Angel of the Morning" was my motivation for buying this and is by far my favorite. I was rather disappointed to find that two songs that appear in the commercial are not on the sound track. The Boo Radley's "There She Goes" and one other song which can be clearly heard in the trailer and the ads are missing from this. Other then that, this is a great album.

Some kind of American haiku almost . . .
I saw this movie at the Hollywood galaxy in Los Angeles. The music came on and immediately gave me the chills. This was a very well thought out movie and soundtrack. Every song fit incredibly snug as the movie progressed. Never was there a time when I found myself feeling awkward from hearing out of place music.

A trick to this CD though, if you don't know, if you listen to this in your car, the Mychael Danna selections from track 11 to track 29 turn the volume up VERY loud (if you can stand it) the depth of the sound due to the Glass Orchestra that was used has an orchestral effect like you've probably not heard or ever been used to. The glass orchestra uses glass instruments, pieces of glass, bottles etc to attain the effect that is heard. The guitar work is flawless. Wilco's 'How to fight Lonliness' is a great introduction to people not familiar with their music.

If you're looking for great music or something new like Wilco and Mychael Danna, then this is for you. If you also in the mood to hear Them and Van Morrison do a Bob Dylan cover than you're also in luck. It's actually the finest rendition of the song ever done.

... Yonder stands your orphan with his gun, crying like a fire in the sun ... look out baby! ... the saints are coming through ... it's all over now, baby blue.

Well worth the money paid.